Autor(en)

Borwein, Jonathan M.:

Auflage

Auflage: 2nd ed.

Verlag / Jahr

Springer, 10.1999.

Format / Einband

hardcover 755 Seiten

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 496 g

ISBN

0387989463

EAN

9780387989464

Bestell-Nr

88774

Bemerkungen

Our intention in this collection is to provide, largely through original writings, an ex tended account of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. The story of pi reflects the most seminal, the most serious, and sometimes the most whimsical aspects of mathematics. A surprising amount of the most important mathematics and a signifi cant number of the most important mathematicians have contributed to its unfolding directly or otherwise. Pi is one of the few mathematical concepts whose mention evokes a response of recog nition and interest in those not concerned professionally with the subject. It has been a part of human culture and the educated imagination for more than twenty-five hundred years. The computation of pi is virtually the only topic from the most ancient stratum of mathematics that is still of serious interest to modern mathematical research. To pursue this topic as it developed throughout the millennia is to follow a thread through the history of mathematics that winds through geometry, analysis and special functions, numerical analysis, algebra, and number theory. It offers a subject that provides mathe maticians with examples of many current mathematical techniques as weIl as a palpable sense of their historical development. Why a Source Book? Few books serve wider potential audiences than does a source book. To our knowledge, there is at present no easy access to the bulk of the material we have collected. 9780387989464

Schlagworte

special function, development, calculus, arithmetic, logarithm, function, geometry, boundary element method, algebra, knowledge, number theory, interpolation, functions, Microsoft Access, history of mathematics

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